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21/11/ – 27/11/16 Crazily enough, my arrival at Omuhonga resembles an official visit. All 208 students sing the Namibian national anthem and hoist their country’s flag. What follows is a song that’s probably called „hello visitor, we are so happy to welcome you!“. After the singing voices fall silent and I am asked to introduce […]

To give you an idea which steps are needed to erect four walls for a school, the following will contain a short description. First of all you need to know that the village Omuhonga, in which the „primary school“ will be refitted and expanded, is pretty remote. The next town where one could get finished […]

17/11/ – 20/11/16 After my arrival, I spend what remains of the week mainly exploring the different school projects supported by „Kaokoland e.V.“. At the moment, 7 schools receive help from Gisela and Andreas Horn, mainly through food supplies. Their declared goal is to refit and expand the schools enough for the ministry of education […]

14/11/ – 16/11/16 On Monday evening, I arrive at Frankfurt airport right on schedule. My luggage registration is up to the check-in personnel and the fact that my total luggage weight of 51,5 kg is 1500 grams over the limit is generously overlooked. I give my thanks to the nice gentleman at the counter and […]

On October 26th, my summer season 2016 in Crete finally ends. With mixed feelings, I say good-bye to my colleagues and especially “calmly” to the animals of the “Gouves Animal Shelter”. A small donation on my part over € 50.- is to contribute something, that my dog buddies survive the winter well. As a “flight […]

The Himba – A Changing Society (“Ovahimba” in its own language usage, “Ova-” indicates as a prefix that it is several persons.) As nomadic hunters and collectors in the 15/16th century from today’s Botswana to today’s Namibia (Kaokoland) migrated people. The Ovahimba decimated anew the raids of neighbouring tribes, drought periods, a cattle plague (1897), […]

Since last spring, I have been certain that I will travel to Namibia next winter in order to report on a school building project in Omuhonga. Since about this time, there has already been an intense and very friendly contact with the responsible people on site (at this point lovely greetings to Gisela and Andreas […]